Category Archives: Rose Creek

See things at the creek you don’t like? Put the Get it Done! App on your phone and use it. Let’s hold the City’s feet to the fire. Besides reporting problems with trash, illegal activity, and impassible bike paths, the app creates statistics. Let’s show the City how many problems they are not addressing and make sure issues along Rose Creek make it onto City reports.

The results are in.

San Diego County came in first place for the total increase in the number of volunteers from last year. The city that added the most new iNaturalist participants to their region through the City Nature Challenge: San Diego, California with 733 new observers added during the City Nature Challenge. Thank you to each of you who participate.

66 volunteers worked very hard along Rose Creek on April 21 pickup trash, getting down in the creek to pull out tires and muddy sleeping bags, and we enjoyed ice cream provided by Campland on the Bay. A few lucky winners took home books and t-shirt raffle prizes, and Friends of Rose Creek volunteer, Laurie (in her 70s), moved a lot of trash in the U-Haul truck. I Love A Clean San Diego even awarded our site captains the “Site Captain of the Year Award” — the second time in 14 years that we have won. We couldn’t have done it out all the great volunteers. Thanks to Pamela for shuttling trash. Enjoy these photos from the event!

Join I Love A Clean San Diego and the Friends of Rose Creek as we cleanup Rose Creek from the Mike Gotch Bridge to Interstate 5.

The cleanup runs from 9 a.m. until noon and we’ll meet at Mission Bay High School.

Registration is now open. Click here to register online so we know how much food to bring to feed all our amazing volunteers.

All participants under 18 will need to have a parent or guardian sign. Or just come down to Mission Bay High School about 8:45 AM on Saturday, April 21. We’ll be in the Faculty Parking Lot on the east side of campus overlooking Rose Creek and you can sign up on the spot! Plenty of overflow parking is available in the Student Lot on the west side of campus at the corner of Lee Street and Grand Avenue in Pacific Beach.

We’ll have snacks, prizes, and all the everyone who shows up can participate in the Bling Your Bucket contest. Decorate those buckets, wheel barrows and wagons before you come. Reusable is the message we are trying to promote. Participate in the Bling Your Bucket contest to minimize the use of trash bags. We’re here to get rid of trash – not create more of it. More information to be added as we get closer to the event.

At 11:45 a.m., we will have ice cream provide by Campland-on-the-Bay and a raffle with some earth cooling prizes.

If you can, bring work gloves, buckets and wagons to move the trash from where you find it to the dumpster. Burlap sacks and/or tarps are useful as well. Hauling distances vary but can be up to 3/4 of a mile. Bring your reusable water bottles to fill up. Snacks and drinking water will be provided. Wear long pants and sturdy shoes.

The Friends of Rose Creek led two bird watching walks this holiday season. On December 30, we were able to watch a Great Blue Heron try to swallow a dead fish that was just a tad too big. We saw many, many American Widgeon, a couple of Snowy Egrets, a Kingfisher, Osprey, and some more mundane birds like Coots and Mallards. What a wonderful time to be out at the creek.